Power of Names
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A name is a gift that parents give their children, and all gifts have meaning.
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"You'll be the death of me." by NovaNara
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
31 Oct 2016
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Watson's account of his life with Holmes - while mostly accurate - twisted the truth about a few key points. Like the consultive detective's species. Or how much they truly loved each other. Major character death, more sad than scary supernatural tale for Halloween.
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- Part 11 of The AU series
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Astraphobia by ZombieJesus for rise13eyond
Fandoms: Death Note & Related Fandoms, Death Note: Another Note
31 May 2018
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L occasionally goes to Wammy’s incognito, but this time, someone is already in his cottage, eating his cake and taking shelter from the violent thunderstorm outside.
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Cronus never really felt like he fit in with the lives everyone lived. Eventually, someone asked him why.
Updated, now with a better title. Previously titled Travel as a Man (Slowly). Also updated with some new art!Series
- Part 1 of A Matter of the Sun and Moon
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Prince of Death by LadyAramisGrey
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), RIORDAN Rick - Works, Stargate - All Media Types
11 Apr 2020
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Xander Harris has a secret. It's not life-changing, not really. More...death-changing. As Buffy and co. continue surviving everything the Hellmouth can throw at them, they find themselves getting drawn deeper and deeper into the mysterious world that Xander and his mother come from.
Let's just hope the Powers that Be don't get involved.
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- Part 2 of Hades Rising
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The Prodigal Sword of the Principality by herebewyverns
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
17 Jul 2019
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In which the flaming sword of the Principality Aziraphale, Guardian of the Eastern Gate and Defender of Humanity will most certainly not stand for being given away a second time. No, the angel in question doesn’t get a say in this.
Or: The Bentley had to be well-loved to learn how to love its Master in return. The flaming sword had loved its Master from the Beginning, and now it wants to come home.
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- Part 2 of The Third Side
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What's in a Name? by notebooksandlaptops
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
18 Jun 2020
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Dandelion, Dandelion, Buttercup, Jaskier...
Jaskier knows the power names hold. He has always chosen his carefully; a bright spot of yellow in a green field, a flower beloved by children and hated by adults, the annoyance of a weed that won’t go away.
Dandelion, Dandelion, Buttercup, Jaskier…
His true name though? Well. That is just for him and him alone. His parents know it, of course, for they gifted it to him. As such, he stays as far away from them as possible.
He knows the power names hold; he knows the magic of the fae.
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Or, after a fae court steals Ciri away, Geralt and Jaskier must devise a plan to save her. An ultimate act of trust is shared.
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Etymon: The true or proper name of a thing. (Obsolete. rare.)
Then Mensah said quietly, “SecUnit, do you have a name?”
I wasn’t sure what she wanted. “No.”
“It calls itself ‘Murderbot,’” Gurathin said.NB Now with chapter 3: System Collapse, contains spoilers
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The Fey claimed what was theirs with care.
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- Part 4 of RubyBlue's One Piece Fics
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Mercy, Ruin, and the Crown Between by Nellz
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
02 Apr 2025
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"It's not that I don't want to be known. It's that I don't want to be seen."
Centuries after his fall, Xie Lian receives a prayer that unearths more than just memory. It awakens grief. Rage. And the part of him he thought he had buried for good. A forgotten ghost has been wronged. A girl died in silence. Heaven did nothing.
Still under house arrest, Xie Lian begins to walk again - not toward redemption, but toward truth. A truth that makes him question what kind of god he really is.
Mercy, ruin, and something between.
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the glass king, or, how to spin straw into gold by helleborehound
Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale)
14 Oct 2014
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I should have killed my father while I still had the chance.
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- Part 2 of refusing the rules
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keep me searching for a heart of gold by lady_ragnell for cirque
Fandoms: Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
11 May 2019
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Some of them, the wish-granters, the kindly folk, the godparents, are summoned by desire, or hard work, or anger. It calls them, tugs them, until they can go to help, to see the desire fulfilled, the wish granted. Some of them receive in trade only the sense that they're balancing the scales of the world. Some of them amass favors owed. Some of them make bargains.
Rumpelstiltskin has always found himself called to tears, the quiet ones of despair, the ones that are silent because it never occurs to the one weeping that someone might hear and come to comfort them. It might be better, if he could simply help them without asking anything in return, but his magic always asks for a bargain.
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The Daughter of the Boasting Miller by laurasimonsdaughter
Fandoms: Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
29 Nov 2020
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This is a fix-it fairy tale: more kindness, more consent and more inclusivity!
Because spinning straw into gold and making dangerous trades is all well and good, but the rest of the Grimm’s Rumplestiltskin could really do with some fixing. -
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After three years in witness protection Sarah is tired of running, tired of lying, tired of being someone else. There's one person who can save her, call her by her real name if she'll only let him, but will she?
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Deals In The Dark by DragonflyPrince for Dolorosa
Fandoms: Rumpelstilzchen | Rumpelstiltskin (Fairy Tale)
08 May 2023
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A bargain was made for her life. Now she has no choice but to arrange her own escape.
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A Dozen Troubles by tangentti
Fandoms: Die zertanzten Schuhe | The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
09 Jul 2024
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It's all fun and games until someone loses their head.
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To get Jason back, Bruce strikes a deal with the Unseelie Queen: she'll bring back Jason, safe and sound. In return he takes in this creature of her choosing, which resembles a human boy.
Meanwhile, Tim has been trying to escape the Unseelie Court for years. He makes a deal with the Unseelie Queen: if he can make every member of the Wayne family love him by the end of summer, he can leave. If not, he must stay with the Unseelie Queen forever.